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Laws Affecting Small Business: Labour
The FMF’s pro-small business recommendations for the labour environment.
All taxes are wealth taxes – wealth tax & basic income grant
Targeting a collective and rather vaguely defined sin allows politicians to avoid verbally attacking the rich for being too productive.
The benefit of economic freedom transcends cultures
The benefit of economic freedom transcends cultures. This is not to suggest that the culture of a region is not important to economic outcomes.
Media release: South Africa ranks 99th among 165 jurisdictions in economic freedom
Johannesburg – South Africa ranks 99th out of 165 countries and territories included in the Economic Freedom of the World: 2022 Annual Report, released today
Loadshedding and lockdown expose paperthin democracy
Loadshedding and lockdown have a few important characteristics in common. The most important is that no other policy or policies in recent memory has proven
JSEC: Job Seekers Exemption Certificate
The steps taken must offer hope of economic betterment to the millions of South Africans who are jobless and unskilled. The purpose of this paper
FMF launches socio-economic impact assessment (SEIA); government ICT policy is harming consumers
Under free competition, with more operators than in most countries, free-to-choose consumers, not organs of state, should decide if we are over- or under-served.
Media briefing paper: Summary of FMF SEIA on government’s radio frequency spectrum policy
The key message of this study is that regulatory failure and political ideology have deprived South African consumers of better coverage, higher efficiency and lower
Socio-economic impact assessment on the SA government’s radio spectrum policy
The key message of this study is that regulatory failure and political ideology have deprived South African consumers of better data coverage and lower prices.
FMF 2021 additional submission on Expropriation Bill
Since the Constitution’s public participation conditions have not been met, and since no compliant SEIA has been produced, we urge the Committee to refer the
FMF 2021 submission on Expropriation Bill
In general, the Bill seeks to make it too easy for government to engage in expropriation in general, and must be beefed up with additional
FMF 2020 submission on annual review of the Constitution
Despite the fact that the Constitution is often heralded as one of the most liberal in the world, it has been applied and interpreted in
